If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of… - Isaac Asimov

Right! Not that I particularly like having a robot tell me my job, nor that I think he can do it!

É realmente muito desanimadora essa estupidez universal. Acho que eu não sofreria tanto se o suicídio da humanidade resultasse apenas de pura maldade de coração ou por mera inconsequência. Mas é de uma falha tão desgraçada de dignidade, que estamos a ponto de nos destruir como fruto da mais obtusa e impenetrável estupidez.

It was odd how that last deed caught the imagination of the world. All that Andrew had done before had not swayed them. But he had finally accepted even death to be human, and the sacrifice was too great to be rejected.